martelar

verb

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The verdict

“martelar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #58,646 among 2,261 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#58,646
frequency rank, Portuguese
2,261
“M” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - bater com um martelo

Key facts for martelar
PropertyValue
Headwordmartelar
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechVerb
Letters8
Frequency rank#58,646
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “martelar” sits in Portuguese frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). martelar lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

martelar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #58,646 among 2,261 “M” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

No generated misspelling entries exist for martelar in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is martelar, spelled M-A-R-T-E-L-A-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    bater com um martelo
  2. 2
    insistir teimosamente

This word in other languages

bang(English)

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "martelar"?
"martelar" is spelled M-A-R-T-E-L-A-R.
What does "martelar" mean?
As a verb, "martelar" means: bater com um martelo
What language does "martelar" come from?
"martelar" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Using “martelar”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is M-A-R-T-E-L-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words

Other uncommon Portuguese words near this rank

Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list